Your replies saved lot of time in learning shell script and made life easier

* I downloaded Fedora 19
* I installed it in my laptop
* I created that simple shell script and executed to know the pointsb value with some dummy values of other variables
* I created another shell script without awk

The logic is completely right in the above code apart from the system mistakes. I am sure i am not going to write any shell script. I just wanted to learn it. So when i read a script, i could understand the flow.

Discussion started by: wxuyec

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi!
I have a strange behaviour from sed and awk, but I'm not sure, if I'm doing something wrong:
I have a list of words, where I want to add the following string at the end of each line:
\;\;\;\;0\;1
I try like this:
$ cat myfile | awk '{if ( $0 != "" ) print $0"\;\;\;\;0\;1"}'
Result:... (5 Replies)

Discussion started by: saint2006

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts,
The question may look very silly by seeing the title, but please have a look at it clearly.
I have a text file where the first 5 columns in each row were supposed to be attributes of a sample(like sample name, number, status etc) and the next 25 columns are parameters on which... (3 Replies)

Discussion started by: cola

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am beginner in awk
awk 'BEGIN{for(i=1;(getline<"opnoise")>0;i++) arr=$1}{print arr}'
In the above script, opnoise is a file, I am reading it into an array and then printing the value corresponding to index 20. Well this is not my real objective, but I have posted this example to describe... (1 Reply)